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Deep in this giant maze lies more than just a legendary gemstone with supernatural powers waiting to be discovered. Something dangerous still wanders the corridors of the labyrinth. Something born inhuman from lust, betrayal, and greed. Something that hungers to feast on human flesh again.

Life has kicked my ass. Aged out of the Foster system. I’m on my own. Trying to stay alive. Working the only job, I could get. At the gas station. Certainly not my dream job. But I gotta do what I gotta do. The customers are rude and vulgar. One night. A group of thugs comes in. I’m scared. Lucky me. A biker is here. Claims he’s going to help me. Could that be true?

The MC is my life. Second gen. I’m an MC brat. It runs in my blood. I will protect. I will kill. I take care of my Prez. Yeah, sergeant-at-arms. Just like my dad. Bitches come and go. Love is overrated. Bitch betrayed me. The bitch disappeared. Now she shows up. Surprise.

My life hasn’t been easy. I killed to survive. In the Pen at 18. Out at 22. My luck changes. I encountered the MC. The MC is my family. Life is short. I live my life fast and dark. Kill or be killed. That’s the only way to live to survive. Lost and found. The girl is scared. I’m a biker. Claiming her is not for me. But I want to protect her. She touches my soul.

In the drug world today, most of the "buzz" is centered around "legal highs" and various loopholes. Within this audiobook, I've highlighted many of the semi-legal psychoactive plants, fungi, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and insects in which these substances are derived and/or extracted/isolated from. I use the term "semi-legal" because laws vary by state, loopholes exist, and the host may be legal in situations where isolating the drug is not, hence "semi-legal".

By the time you're done with this audiobook, you will understand more clearly why certain Medicare Advantage medical practices are thriving, and others are struggling. Recognize the power of accurate documentation. And remember: whether you are a physician, nurse, coder, or any other healthcare professional, it is a shared responsibility.

Unbelievable! No matter how far I run, how much I try to keep in the shadows and stay out of my father’s affairs, I fall into the darkness. The scary biker thinks that my father will conform to his demands by taking me. The biker is crazy. Father only cares about his job and my brother. The odd thing is, this scary, hard biker doesn’t scare me, and he makes me feel alive. He sees me.

Caelen and Lyra, two characters bound together by fate and haunted by their past. Caelen, a young knight seeking to prove his worth, embarks on a quest to find the fabled Temple of Eldara. Along the way, he meets Lyra, a talented herbalist and healer who is searching for a way to life a curse that has plagued her family for generations.

Bennett Jacobs is okay with being square. With a loving spouse for company, the introverted software engineer doesn’t want or need to turn strangers into friends. But after the wife drags him kicking and screaming to a pool party, he reveals his computer smarts to a flamboyant artist dealing a popular street drug, and his life goes from blasé to bonkers.

When the big, savage bounty hunter, Ulysses Xavier Lodge comes to town wanting to spark one of Jane Ford's pretty doxies at the San Juan Saloon & Hotel, Jane and two bouncers give the bear-like giant the bum's rush. Incensed, Lodge returns to the parlor house and shoots Jane three times in the chest. Jane and Bloody Joe had been on the outs, their marriage dissolved, but now with Jane's life teetering on the edge, Joe realizes how much he really loves the pretty redhead and what a fool he was to let her go.

In the year 2166, baseball is just a distant memory, lost to history in the aftermath of a devastating second American Civil War a hundred years earlier. But, when Joe Scott, a curious 12-year-old, stumbles upon a relic from the distant past, from before the war, it sparks a search for its meaning. Little does he know that the wheels of Providence have been unwittingly set in motion which leads him on an epic quest of adventure and discovery.

To lack persistence is to stay cheaply resisted. Where persistence is missing, possible attainment can be limited. Persistence is the key to defeating resistance. One of the keys to succeeding in life is the operations of persistence.

Following the brutal murder of former Confederate officer Joshua Wingade, the pursuit for the renegade vampire Jules Holland and his hellish followers continues across a war-torn South. The newly resurrected gunfighter Dead-Eye, accompanied by Louisiana mojo man Job, find themselves hot on the trail, eager to rescue an abducted child and put an end to the death and destruction the outlaws and the dark witch Evangeline have conjured with the aid of Necronomicon and the otherworldly Hole Out of Nowhere.

Our lives have become much more complicated and fast-paced than only a few decades ago, and people in all seasons and from all walks of life are struggling to juggle the demands of work and home. Whether you are single, married, parents, or attempting to lead your blended family, or if your stark reality is that you are on an unsustainable trajectory and something has to give, Rodney Gage’s The Double Win is for you.

When I was first diagnosed with a mental illness, I sought after information that could tell me just what in the world was happening to me. There was nothing. Or at least I didn’t find anything. I wrote these letters to my first psychiatrist so she could see inside my head.

CEO Nelson Kennard is about to pay his fiancée an impromptu visit when he sees her kissing a former rival in the doorway of her Victorian townhouse. Fuming and filled with inconsolable vengeance, he grabs his gun from the glove compartment of his vehicle, and enters her home with his personal set of keys. As he climbs the stairs, he hears Parris Stalls and her lover in the throes of passionate bliss. With his gun cocked, he enters the dark room and sees it all.

The Petty Principles: Volume I is a modern satirical philosophy piece, packed with life lessons and laughs. Stoicism meets comedy. Comedian turned author, Rodney Smith (@lordpetty__), known from the widely successful podcast Lord Petty, delivers wisdom packed into blunt humor.

Hello Human, I fell from heaven with Lucifer himself, but this story is not about him. I want to focus on a time in my life when I start to question my choices. I work for a covert organization that nudges humans to do bad things. Fallen angels cannot take your free will so don’t think you get a free pass.

The greatest controversy in the history of the US Navy of the early American Republic was the revelation that the son of the Secretary of War had seemingly plotted a bloody mutiny that would have turned the US brig Somers into a pirate ship. The plot discovered, he and his coconspirators were hastily condemned and hanged at sea.

Engrossing, vivid, and disturbing, Cosmos’ surreal adventure unfolds as the stakes get higher and the setting expands to reveal the secrets of Freedom Basin and Basin’s Vault Prison, and the technological marvel of nearby City of Sol. With his dog Plato and accidental partners Reyansh and her celebrity-influencer brother Deva, this is a modern thriller told in the style of classic horror, studded with morphing monsters, haunted by modern moral questions and sub plots that promise to bloom (or explode) in the two volumes to follow.